Conveyer.



PATE-MED 111113.11, 1908."

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CONVEYER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1 1, 190s.

Application lefl September 1| 1906. Serial No. 382.966-

Toall 'whom it may concern.; y la' Be it known that I, GEORGE E. RIGH- MOND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Houston, in the county of Harris and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Conveyor, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to conveyers and is more especially designed for use in threshing machines and the like, although it is equally effective when used in connection with other forms of machinery.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a simple and durable form of conveyer which is easy to operate and which will convey material in an eflicient manner.

A still further object is to provide means whereby the bodily movement ofthe conveyer will result in the operation of means for shifting material along the conveyer in the direction of its movement thereby greatly increasing the speed at which the material is moved along the conveyer without correspondingly increasing the speed of the conveyer.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings is shown the preferred form of the invention.

In said drawings: Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a portion of a conveyer constructed in accordance with the present invention; and Fig. 2 is a transverse section therethrough.

Referring to the figures by characters' of reference, C designates the walls of a supporting casing and secured to the inner faces of these walls are supporting rails 1 and 2 preferably in the form `of angle irons suitably secured to the casing walls and having their ends downturned as shown at 3. Endless chains 4 are mounted -to1 travel upon sprockets 5 one of which is secured to a shaft 6 journaled in the walls'2 and one of these shafts and sprockets thereon is disposed to be located at each end of the conveyer. In the drawings only one end portion of the conveyer has been illustrated as it is not deemed necessary to show all of the sprockets carrying the same. Certain of the links of the chains, preferably, the alternate ones, constitute bearings for the transversely extending shafts 7 each of which has wheels 8 and 9 at the ends thereof. The wheel 8 on each shaft is in the form of a spur wheel and each of the rails 1 is provided with rack teeth designed to mesh with the spur wheels so that w said spur wheels will travel upon and be rotated by the rack teeth. v Arms 10 radiate from each shaft 7 and the arms of the adjoining shafts are preferably arranged intercurrently so that the rotation of the shafts will not be interfered with.

Suitable guards 11 are secured to the side walls C above the upper leads of the chains so as to prevent the material which is being conveyed from becoming entangled with the chains and the wheels and rails. It is obvious that if the arms 10 were not employed straw or other similar material if placed upon the chains 4 and the shafts connecting them would be conveyed thereby at a speed equal to the speed of movement of the chains. 'In order to facilitate the longitudinal movement of material without however increasing the speed of the chains the radiating arms 10 have been employed. When the chains are moved longitudinally the shafts 7 are caused to rotate in the manner described and the arms 10 revolve therewith and successively take up and carry the material forward in relation to the chains and it will be conveyed to the arms of the next shaft and in this way the material is passed from the arms of one shaft to the arms of the adjoining shaft and moved along the conveyer at an increased speed without correspondingly increasingV the speed of movement of the chains. It is of course understood that the shaft 6 can be actuated by any suitable mechanism..

What is claimed is: i

1. Av conveyer including endless chains, shafts supported for rotation in said chains, and spacing said chains apart, and supporting means for the chains 3 said shafts being provided with radial arms.

2. A conveyer comprising endless chains, means for actuating them, arms movably mounted upon and carried by the chains, and means for actuating the arms for directing material longitudinally along the conveyer during the movement of said conveyer,- y

3. A conveyer comprising endless fiexible elements,l means for actuating the same, revoluble series of arms carried by said elements, and means for actuating said armsduring the movement of the flexible eleen the chains are drawn longitudinally ments, said arms being disposed vto pass material longitudinally upon said elements during'the movement of the elements.

4. A conveyer comprising endless chains,

5 means for actuating them, shafts carried by the chains means for rotating the shaft during the movement 0f the chains7 and radial devices upon the shafts for directing material longitudinally along the conveyer.

10 5. An endless conveyer having radial del vices revolubly mounted thereon and mov able therewith and disposed to direct material longitudinally along the conveyer.

In testimony that I claim the Jforegoing as my own, I have hereto affixed vmy signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

GEORGE E. RICHMOND. Witnesses:

CHARLES A. WARNKEN. E. R. WARNKEN. 

